On Tuesday 27 December 2005 16:55, M. Feenstra wrote: > Hi, > I'm experimenting with UML and have 2 UML guests running on a host with > 1024M of memory. If I give the UML guests 128M of memory all is fine. If I > give it 384 (or even 256) the UML guest boots until "VFS: Mounted root > (ext2 filesystem) readonly." and then freezes.. no oops.. nothing.. only > thing I can do is kill it.
> I have read in the archive a simular topic in october of this year but > didn't find the answer to this issue. > I run a debian UML kernel : 2.4.26-3um on the guest > I run a home-patched skas kernel: 2.6.12.6-skas3-v9-pre7 on the host > (debian) > The debian UML kernel is build using this settings for "General Setup" (so > no HIGHMEM for example): > I set the value /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count to 262144 (should allow to 1G > guests right?). Yes. > Any hints on this item??? Using a more recent kernel, disabling TT mode (which helps for big amounts of memory, but only on recent enough kernels - >= around 2.6.9, IIRC), enabling static linking. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
